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Archive for November, 2006

She’s over there, being wrapped in a tinfoil blanket

Posted by Editor on November 30th, 2006

Hello, Editor here. I know some of you don’t like me much - thanks for ruining my suede loafers, by the way - but you’ll have to lump it. I am here to announce the unprecedented success of my very own little writery person.
Reed hit the 50000 word finishing tape at approximately one a.m. Greenwich […]

7665 words in three, no, two evenings

Posted by Reed on November 27th, 2006

Bloglily and litlove are doing all these cool poetry meme things and I can’t join in. I have already overcommitted myself socially this week and I. Have. No. Time.
But I really really want to. I haven’t written a word about (or a word of, for that matter) poetry all month and it’s beginning to hurt.
But […]

On being married to a writer

Posted by Reed on November 25th, 2006

The other night, as I fought and tore and wrenched myself closer to the 30000 word mark, my husband came over, bringing me a cup of tea. He stood behind my chair and I leaned my head back against his manly solar plexus and sighed. He stroked my hair.
‘How’s it going?’ he asked.
I waved my […]

We come in bouncing, we go out punctured.

Posted by Reed on November 20th, 2006

Look! I’m very nearly exceedingly half-way there! 24205 words!
[Er, Reed, honey, it’s day 20 - Ed]
Yes, but I’m practically half-way there, which is very cool indeed.
[Yeah, verily, my feet are freezing. But you’ve already used up two whole thirds of your days allowance.]
So I’ve only got 25000 words to go!
[In ten days.]
Well….
[That’s 2500 words a […]

Me! Me! or, also saved by a meme

Posted by Reed on November 15th, 2006

I got this from AB and Charlotte, and as I really really need a break…
1. Explain what ended your last relationship
Assuming you mean the one before the one I’m currently in, which, ah ha ha, hasn’t ended, a marriage proposal. To whit: ‘If you married me, you wouldn’t have to go to University.’ At which […]

Blah blah blah yeah whatever

Posted by Reed on November 11th, 2006

The thing is, I don’t like my main character much. I don’t even get the luxury of loathing the poor sap. I just… don’t like him very much. He looks interesting, he has an interesting job and an interesting scar and an interesting heart-rending dilemma to be getting on with, but he seems to have […]

Straight into a brick wall

Posted by Reed on November 8th, 2006

Writer’s block.
I’d swear, but I haven’t the imagination to make it worthwhile.

Dilatory

Posted by Reed on November 5th, 2006

This is not beginning with quite the flair and panache I was hoping for. Day four of 30, I should have written 6666 words already. I have written 4850. Underperforming just a tad, that’s me.
[Never mind that now. You have an entire first chapter in which one of the main characters doesn’t appear at all, […]

Widgets!

Posted by Reed on November 4th, 2006

Please admire my nice new side-bar word-count thingy, which I managed to insert into the style sheet all by my very clever self.
[…]
Oh, all right, I had the husband on stand-by.

This is HARD WORK

Posted by Reed on November 2nd, 2006

I’m not even getting to watch any telly or read anything tonight. And I’ve broken my favourite mug. I dropped it on the kettle. My only break of more than five minutes so far was spent removing shards of china from the filter in the spout.
[Oh, the self-pity. Get back to work, you idle […]